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I have 4 unwanted urls that load every time I open a new Safari window. How do I eliminate this? Are these spyware or other malicious code?
I have trashed cache.db, history.plist and LastSession.plist and these did not solve the problem. Thanks for any help I can get.

Michael DiPirro wrote:
b noir,
That looks like where they are. How did this toolbar appear? Can I remove the entire toolbar?
Mike
I'm having trouble keeping up with this topic ... every time I've finished a post, there's three or four new replies showing up and the troubleshoot has moved on.
The toolbars can be (silently) installed by a number of different packages/websites, although I fear I'm well behind the times on what packages/websites are most commonly installing them for folks nowadays. There's a lot of variations about, as it's a platform rather than a specific application:
http://www.conduit.com/Toolbar/Benefits.aspx
I'll defer to Carolyn on the state-of-the-art when it comes to removing the toolbars.

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